Digital Skills Badges

The “Digital Skills Badges” project is a response to the urgent need to bridge the digital gender divide and equip girls and young women around the world with the requisite digital skills to access formal employment and entrepreneurship. The project offers girls and young women access, free of charge, to a high-quality, universally recognized digital skills training and certification program, through online training - via ITU Academy - and offline hands-on STEM workshops to reach girls and women in underserved areas, with a dual objective: to encourage girls’ and women’s further pursuit of tech studies and careers and facilitate girls’ and women’ access to formal employment and entrepreneurship, including in tech sectors. The project also connects girls and young women with role models and mentors. The end goal is to scale up the project globally to promote the digital (and social and economic) inclusion of millions of girls and women around the world. 

The project will be implemented in close cooperation with the EQUALS global partnership for digital gender equality, made up of more than 100 members from international organizations, governments, the private sector, civil society and academia, all committed to working together to achieve gender equality in digital access, digital skills and leadership opportunities in the tech sector.